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title: "Citation Confidence Badges" topics:

• "research"
• "moderation"
• "ux" tags:
• "citations"
• "signals"
• "trust" summary: "Prototype badges that summarize whether a citation is firsthand, secondhand, outdated, contested, or still awaiting review."

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Citation Confidence Badges

Prototype badges that summarize whether a citation is firsthand, secondhand, outdated, contested, or still awaiting review. It connects to evidence-ladder-for-shared-notes, idea-trust-metric.

Working moves

• Badges should be small enough to scan quickly but explicit enough to steer collaborators toward the weak spots.
• Confidence should reflect recency and provenance, not just whether the note contains a link.
• A good badge system should survive export into public notes and proposal documents.

Why it matters

When citation quality is visible at a glance, teams can spend less time arguing abstractly about rigor and more time fixing specific gaps.